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Most hockey fans love to discuss and speculate on the ‘what ifs’ surrounding particular players and teams over the years, especially at the NHL level.

The second half of my life started by returning from Vancouver to work with Murray Printing, as expected. I started out in a research and development capacity. After a few years of that, I was appointed as superintendent over 200 people – three departments and three different unions. This was a new

The latest economic and fiscal outlook from Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) indicates that the federal deficit will grow more than previously projected, up to $46.5 billion in the current fiscal year. The PBO also said we’ll continue to run deficits for the remainder of this decade.

For as long as I can remember, I have been someone who is very leery about believing what I see on social media. I am also someone that, as the saying goes, until I hear something from the horse’s mouth, I don’t take any credence or stock in rumours.

There is something new on the housing front. Coming to a park near you – ice fishing huts.

Winter has rather suddenly blanketed southwestern Ontario in its icy embrace. We now find ourselves confronted with a season that demands resilience and strength. In the chill of the winter winds, there is a profound parallel to the challenges we face in our spiritual journeys.

Over the past month, small business owners have shared with me some of their personal stories and frustrations.

I’ve seen many times on various social media outlets, videos of moms spewing their controversial opinions about parenting. The topics range from co-sleeping to breastfeeding; honestly, there’s no limit. As you can say about every social media trend. Remember the ice bucket challenge and how out of h

He lurks in the shadows, hiding his smirking green face behind lamp posts and hedges, parked cars and garbage cans, his mean, beady eyes fixed on the delivery truck.

If you have been following the recent media coverage of the trial of the young man who killed Salman Afzaal, Madiha Salman, Yumna Afzaal, Talat Afzaal and wounded the youngest of this Muslim family, who were all intentionally run down while out for a stroll, in their London, Ont. community, you will

Shortly after graduating from college, in what seems like a lifetime ago now, I worked for three years in Baker Lake, Nunavut as a grocery manager for the Northwest Company.

My late grandfather worked on a prominent Wingham well-drilling outfit for the majority of his adult life. He and his crew were drilling a well on an area farm on Friday afternoon, Nov. 22, 1963, when the farmer’s wife came out from the house and told them that U.S. President John F. Kennedy had bee

Several years after I opened my small tool and die shop, I came up with what turned out to be a sure-fire formula for growing my business: I made my top managers partners in profits, and I gave them a share of the ownership.

Right now, heading into winter, is a good time for me to do a life recap.